10 most failure adaptations of DC comics

This crazy year is still far from completion, but some applicants for the title of the main movie show 2020 can be called now. Among them are long -suffering "Predatory birds" , who barely repelled their not so high budget. Some spectators are gloating about this: they say, this is the DC cinema, it is originally defective, which can be expected from it? And there is a share of truth in this – things to build a response of the cinematic union Marvel u Warner Bros. and really go neither shaky nor a rally. However, individual successes, like "Aquaman" or "Joker" , Still meet. Well, if you look into the past, it becomes obvious that before everything was worse. Much worse. To prove this, we remembered the ten most failure adaptations of DC comics.

10. Superman Return (2006)

"Superman" Richard Donner forever changed cinema and influenced many directors. Sam Reimi sent to him in the first "Spider-Man" , Christopher Nolan was inspired by him, taking off "Batman: Beginning". But stronger than others, Brian Singer was in love with the picture of 1978. And when after the success of the first two "X -Men" He had a chance to take on a new film about a man of steel, he immediately threw mutants to the mercy of fate. And it cannot be said that it was not worth it.

Today we somehow forgot about it, but in the year of the premiere "Superman Return" received rather warm reviews both from critics and from the audience. An old -fashioned, optimistic and pathos superhero cinema, everyone generally liked it, and according to the fees, even overtook "Batman: Beginning". Only now almost 400 million dollars with a colossal budget of 270 million were clearly not enough. From a financial point of view, it was a clear failure.

Yes, and the time test was postponed for the film: “The Superman's Return” is indeed an overly old -fashioned film. Singer so fanatically imitated Richard Donner that he teased dialogs, scenes and plot moves from his picture, offering almost nothing of his. Even the main role of Brandon Ruta was approved solely due to external resemblance to Christopher Riva, the star of the original Superman. The result was a very expensive and very long Ommage. There is almost no action in it, there is no fascinating plot, and among the actors only the magnificent Kevin Spacey shines in the role of Lex Lutor. However, with all the shortcomings, this is not the worst film about the hero in a red cloak – we will get to him again.

9. John Hex (2010)

In the seventies, fashion for superheroes was declining, which prompted DC Comics to experiments in other genres. So John Hax appeared – a harsh head hunter, clearly written off from Clint Eastwood from the "dollar trilogy" Sergio Leone. Not to say that the character was so popular, but it turned out to be tenacious enough to go through a few restarts and light up in the animated series about Batman and the Justice League. In the zero hex, they were even going to give a solo show with living actors, but something did not grow together. But in the 2010s, the antihero from the Wild West received a nominal picture … which did not notice the exit, it seems, no one.

What "John Hex" Do not take away, is an impressive acting. In the title role of Josh “Tanos” Broin, his girlfriend is portrayed by Megan Fox, and the villains are played by Michael Fassbender and John Malkovich. If the film would be launched five years later, he would definitely receive a budget and a normal advertising campaign. But ten years ago, few people heard about some kind of Fassbender there, and Bronina was mainly known to lovers of author's cinema. Therefore, only $ 47 million was allocated for the project, and Jimmy Heyord, who had only a cartoon, was seated on the director's chair "Horton".

The result was something from the same breed as "Solomon Kane" Or, let's say, "Shepherd" with Bettani Paul – a passing and inexpressive film category B, which is disappeared from memory an hour after watching. Well, at the box office "John Hax" earned humiliating 11 million. It is not surprising that none of the involved failures once again recalls this failure.

8. Suicide squad (2016)

DC cinematic was really born in hellish torment, which is why it is still incorrectly standing on his feet. "A man of steel" He performed well, but the main bet of Warner Bros., Of course, I did "Batman against Superman". And when the film was met at least ambiguously, the studio’s leadership clearly panicked.

The main victim of this panic was "Suicide detachment". The already almost ready -made film began to be redone in a hurry in order to take away from pathos and darkness "at the dawn of justice". Something was happy, something was re-re-re-cut out. And the director David Aira was generally quietly removed from the final installation of the picture – usually such decisions indicate the approach of the disaster. It was to her “Suicide Squad” that began. No, the tape performed perfectly at the box office: the trailer for Bohemian Rapsodia was already painfully good. But critics deservedly spread the picture for pieces. For a leaky script, for the disgusting ending, for the action, which is almost not discerned in pitch darkness, and, in the end, for false marketing, because the film was sold as a benefit of a new Joker. He is on every poster, all the promotional materials in his palette, and Jared Leto and to the left gave out an interview where he told how scrupulously he was preparing for the role and how he entered the image. And as a result, the audience received five minutes of something slurred and completely not impressive. It is clear that a lot remained on the floor in the mounting, but already falling on the screen to scare away the audience.

Having collected the money, the “Suicide squad”, however, ruined the ground for the “Justice League” and “Bird Birds”. The disappointed audience secretly concluded that DC’s command films are not obtained, and therefore they can be safely ignored. But to some extent, because of this, we received a “Joker”-the film is so far from the picture of David Ayra, as far as it is possible.

7. Batman and Robin (1997)

First "Batman" Tima Burton was an indisputable hit, but the second was already brought by Warner Bros. There are many problems. The gloomy and terrible film scared young spectators, outraged their parents and raised a lot of questions from advertisers. Say, McDonald’s here released a thematic series of happy-miles, and no one is analyzing them, because children have psychological trauma. In general, after this Burton politely, but persistently asked to leave the director's chair. Instead, Joel Schumacher was taken, and on the set "Batman forever" He showed himself a competent, and most importantly, executive director. And therefore, the site of the next part was practically captured by the producers along with the advertisers, and Schumacher could only assent. Add more characters? As you say. More costumes and techniques for toys? Will be executed. More jokes? Any whim for your money. According to the stories of the actors, the director told everyone that they are shooting an advertising cartoon, and therefore it is impossible to play everything in any case. What happened in the end, every fan of the dark knight knows.

"Batman and Robin" To this day, one of the most hated film comics in the entire history of the movie remains. He was nominated for eleven “golden Malin”, although he won only one – she went to the unfortunate Alicia Silverstone for the role of Batgers. Years later, almost everyone who was involved in the project publicly spared about their participation, and Joel Schumacher even apologized to the character fans.

But is it true for the worst superhero film in history and the worst adaptation of DC comics? Damn with two. "Batman and Robin" – unique cinema in all respects. If you tune in to the desired wave, it looks amazing. Scenery, lighting, tricks – everything seems to be done for the most expensive and colorful show Cirque du soleil. This is a crazy mix of a foil of the nineties and a cult series of the sixties – it is undisguised stupid, banter and excessive. Well, how not to love it?

6. Swamp creature (1982)

It's hard to believe, but once the creator of Freddy Kruger and the director "Scream" Wes Craven shot a movie on DC comics. True, this happened two years before the appearance "Nightmare on Vyamy Street". The director already had hit horror "The Last House on the left" And "The hills have eyes" , But he wanted to break out of the genre, to remove something more mainstream and light in mood. And when Craven was offered to make a film about a monstrous superhero swamp creature, he quickly agreed.

Unfortunately, only three million dollars were allocated for production – even by the standards of 1982 it was a very modest amount. Budget restrictions left a noticeable imprint on the entire film. The “Swamp Creature” turned out to be too unhurried: it has a meager event row, quite a bit of action, and the one that is, was placed badly, because Craven did not have any experience in tricky cinema. The atmosphere of foggy swamps is slightly saving the situation, but it collapses, it is worth appearing to the main character: his suit looks painfully cheaply. And it’s better not to remember about the final battle with the villain at all – a ridiculous sight.

However, despite all the problems, "Swamp creature" It turned out to be successful enough to give rise to a small franchise-in the 89th the sequel was released on the screens, and in the 90th the television series, which lasted as much as three seasons, started.

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5. Green Lantern (2011)

In the late 90s, director Martin Campbell shot one of the cool superhero films in history- "Masca Zorro". Therefore, it is especially a pity that his last contribution to the genre and the last major project, in principle, was such a misunderstanding as "Green Lantern".

First of all, the visual visual of the film frankly cuts the eye. The tape is overloaded with graphics, which, even by a standards of almost ten years ago, looks frankly so -so, especially with a budget of 200 million. Everything is some kind of plastic, cartoon and causes involuntary associations with "Children of 3D spies". For comparison, only a year later we came out "Avengers" , whose budget was only 20 million.

But okay visual – in the plot plan "Green Lantern" was also a miserable. This is the most banal superhero Orijin that you can imagine: as if from Spider-Man and "Iron Man" All working jokes, sincerity and drama pumped out. The unfortunate Ryan Reynolds is trying to revive the script for two hours, but one acting charisma will not cover either a wooden character or bad dialogs.

Critics were pleased to trample the film in the mud, and at the world box office the Green Lantern worshiped a little less than $ 220 million, becoming a tremendous failure. After that, Reynolds's career was rapidly declining, and if not for "Deadpool" , The actor could finally go into circulation. As for the lantern, then he is still waiting for a decent restart.

4. Mr. Steel (1997)

Basketball player Shakil O’Neill – Bright Person. In the nineties giant from NBA He actively tried to break out of the site and prove himself in all possible areas: in music, playing industry, cinema. And everything turned out to varying degrees disgusting. If the CHAKA RAP albums were called criticism simply mediocre, then here is the game Shaq-Fu received from many publications the title of worst fighting in history. But a separate mention deserves "Mr. Steel" – The picture that tried to turn O’Nela into a real superhero.

Initially, the project was conceived as the Burtonovsky Superman spin-off-the very one with Nicholas Cage. But the main film did not get out of the production hell, so the creators had to break all the ties with the hero in the red-blue Triko. Only the proprietary letter S stuffed on the biceps of Shakil resembles him. Otherwise, Mr. Steel is a self -sufficient movie.

Well … formally self -sufficient: like a "green lantern", the film has collected all the possible stamps of the superhero Orijin. Unless the African American flavor gives him identity, because the action takes place mainly in the poor quarters of Los Angeles. Well, Shakil O’Nele himself makes Mr. Steel a unique sight. The film was clearly created specifically for it, and therefore Pyramid Spins Casino there are a lot of jokes about basketball and several scenes shot in order to emphasize what the main character is huge and powerful. In addition to this, it is obvious that Shak does not know how to play at all, and his supposedly steel armor literally fall apart on the move.

Mr. Steel did not raise even two million dollars around the world, and its main star received its second nomination for Golden Malina. Fortunately, that year, critics hated Kevin Costner much more "Postman".

3. Super Gulle (1984)

But now it's time for the "magnificent" three. In it, the distribution in places is very conditional, because the films presented are equally terrible. For years they have been mocking comic book fans and lovers of good cinema, and even those who starred in these paintings. Let's go in chronological order.

As already mentioned, the original “Superman” of 1978 is a bad film not only for movie comics, but also for cinema in general. Along with "New Hope" George Lucas, he became one of the first blockbusters in the usual understanding of the word. But to grow a successful franchise out of it somehow did not work. Already on the sequel, problems began when, due to some creative disagreements, the producers fired the director Richard Donner right in the middle of the filming. This move greatly hit both the reputation and the quality of the film. As a result, the second part performed in the box office worse than the first, and the third was worse than the second. Then the studio decided to change the course and release the spin-off about the cousin of Superman. So the first full-length film about the Superhero woman appeared-and part-time one of the worst movie comics.

"Supergers" It looks like the creation of the hippie era, although it was shot fifteen years after its sunset. The main character Kara Zor El behaves like a blessed fool, which is not surprising, because her hometown on Krypton is more reminiscent of the community of "children of flowers". Arriving to the Earth, she enjoys flights over meadows, accelerates the flowering of plants with her heat, and for some reason under the guise of a student penetrates the local school. And this is at a time when the lives of all her relatives depend on whether the Kara will have time to find the missing Krypton artifact on time. And the heroine is opposed not an evil tycoon or aliens from space, but a real fantasy witch. In the DC universe, of course, there is magic, but so abruptly throw it into a science fiction franchise-this is somehow too much. Although everything is too much in the Super Girl: it seems that the creators were not that they hadn’t read comics, but the films about Superman watched in a changed state of consciousness. But the devil with her with a franchise – as an independent work, the tape also does not work. The storyline as such is not, the episodes are barely connected, the characters create the devil knows that, and special effects are simply wretched. Against such a background, even the Sidabovsky circus-chapito looks like exemplary adaptation.

2. Superman IV: In search of peace (1987)

Of course, the "supergers" failed at the box office – could it be otherwise? With a budget of $ 35 million, she raised a little more than 14 million. After such a fiasco, anyone could redeem the rights to super family for almost a symbolic fee. The company took advantage of this Cannon Films , who built her capital on horror films, sex comedies and cheap militants. And for the fourth of Superman, she allocated only $ 17 million, despite the fact that the budget was the first to amount to 55 million.

Of course, there was no miracle. "In search of peace" It looks not just bad, but unacceptable. Special effects and production recall the second -rate movie series the forties. However, the creators did not give up and went to the most wild tricks to somehow get out in the absence of money. The same frame with the flying Christopher Riva is used in the film at least six times, and in the arsenal of Superman there was a ability to restore destroyed objects, for example, the Great Chinese Wall. In order to save the film, the film was shot in Britain, and in order to disguise the old woman England under the American metropolis, red fire hydrants and carts with hot dogs were placed on the streets. It happened so -so.

But, of course, the main attraction of the film is a villain named a nuclear person. According to the plot, Lex Lutor launched a rocket with the genetic material of Superman in the sun. And as a result, a pumped -up blond with silver claws was born right in open space, and even in a wrestler costume. It is noteworthy that initially the villain was supposed to be quite a canonical Bizarro – a failed clone of Sups with the intellect of a three -year -old child and hack habits. But the creators decided to shine with a creative, making the antagonist a kind of embodiment of a nuclear war. Prestigious idea with disgusting implementation.

“In search of the world” is an insult to the character, insulting the audience and insulting the original film by Richard Donner.

1. Cat woman (2004)

And here she – "Room" Tommy Vaiso from the world of superheroics. A film that often takes the upper lines in the tops of the grandiose cinemas in history. And at the same time one of the most funny unplanned comedies that you can find.

"Woman-cat" They conceived in the nineties, and it was assumed that Michelle Pfaifer will play the main role again, and Tim Burton will personally play the director. But the pre-Dakshn dragged on, the key participants diverged other paintings, and remembered the project only in the zero, when a new wave of superhero cinema began with the “Spider-Man” and “X-Men”. The film was entrusted to the Frenchman Pitof, who at that time had only one, but really significant achievement – "Vidok" , The first film in history, completely shot on a digital camera. For some reason, the director decided to distance himself as much as possible both from Batman's paintings, and from comics in general-and took off the tape, relying only on his own associations with the phrase "female cat". That is, he acted approximately like Todd Phillips with a Joker, only at the same time everything constructed.

Nothing works in the "woman-cat", and if it works, then not the way it is planned. Directing, scenario, installation, acting, special effects – about each of these points you can write gigantic paragraphs of bullying. This, in fact, was engaged in critics in 2004. As a result, the stomillional misunderstanding failed at the box office and received four “golden raspberries”.

"Woman Cos" will forever remain a stigma on the career of everyone who took part in its creation, and the worst film adaptation of DC comics. Even among the most mediocre films, it shines brightly with a thawing star.

Here, in general, all the paintings that have ever disgraced the DC logo. Let's see if this list will replenish in the coming years. And what kind of movie comics do you consider unambiguous failures? Write in the comments!

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